Best 389 quotes in «classic quotes» category

It is magnificent, but it is not war.

"It looks as though it was put in by an Indian." He later backtracked: "I meant to say cowboys.

It's a vast waste of space.

It's not called cocaine any more. It's now referred to as Crack Classic.

It's classic the way liberalism works. If anybody has an advantage over anybody for any reason, it's not permitted. It's not fair. And it's got to be regulated and equalized. And in the process, competition's destroyed and when competition goes, so do consumer advantages.

It's flattering to make a picture which becomes a classic within 10 years; it's not so flattering, however, when people get the impression it's the only picture you've ever made.

It's my custom to say something flattering to begin with so I shall be excused if I put my foot in it later on.

It's not a very big one, but at least it's dead and it took an awful lot of killing!

It's difficult to see how it's possible to become immensely valuable by singing what are the most hideous songs.

It was a special show that became a cult classic of sorts, and I made a lot of money for it.

It was like the classic scene in the movies where one lover is on the train and one is on the platform and the train starts to pull away, and the lover on the platform begins to trot along and then jog and then sprint and then gives up altogether as the train speeds irrevocably off. Except in this case I was all the parts: I was the lover on the platform, I was the lover on the train. And I was also the train.

I usually listen to classic rock and roll.

It was probably 10 at night when I started to read Donnie Darko. I get in bed and read the first page, and I go, "Hmmm. That's interesting." Second page, "Wow." By the fourth page, my heart started to beat, and I knew. It makes me cry, because I knew I had found a classic film. You just know when you get certain material.

I've been collecting some more high-end guitars. I have an old Martin D28 from the '60s, a beautiful, classic Martin that I know I played on 'Mariachi.'

I've always liked the classic "young adult" writers like Mark Twain, Jack London, Roald Dahl, Charles Dickens. They write so clearly, and they know how to entertain.

I've always enjoyed sex scenes, though you're not really supposed to. The classic answer is, 'Oh, it's not sexy at all because there are so many technicians standing around.' But I've always found them extremely arousing.

I've been fortunate to be in films that are classic, that are going to be around.

I want to shift my career back to shows like The Knick. I prefer the classic drama structure.

I want to be as feminine and classic as possible.

I've never used the word jamming. It's a matter of finding a great song and learning the chords, then slightly altering the vocal melody, and matching a classic chord progression with another chord progression.

I was fired from my television job, simple as that. Well, downsized, really, a classic 1990s situation.

I would love an old classic car, or something like that. I'd get something much more subtle than any of those cars. The Lamborghinis were unbelievable to drive and to sit in and to film in. I loved the sensation because I love driving, so I appreciate them for what they are. But, I couldn't go into a showroom and buy something of that expense.

I was into fantasy more than horror. I was growing up in the mid-'70s through the '80s, and I also got a healthy dose of that classic era of film.

I was skeptical about doing Texas Chainsaw at first because it's such a cult classic. I'd seen some of the sequels and was not a fan of those.

I was the classic midfield organiser who could also score goals.

Looking back, it's funny how the lighter family-friendly version of these classic Universal movie monsters that were satirized in The Munsters seduced me like a gateway drug into the genre.

I would trade many an art-film classic for the final exchange between Redford and Streisand in front of the Plaza.

Just build a classic horseshoe of wood and plaster, and fill it with statuary and curtains, then sit back and savor the beautifully blended results.

Kevin Garnett did the classic hold me back but fall away at the same time.

Let me live, love and say it well in good sentences.

'Let's Get It On' is a classic Motown single, endlessly repeatable and always enjoyable.

Like faith, marriage is a mystery. The person you're committed to spending your life with is known and yet unknown, at the same time remarkably intimate and necessarily other. The classic seven-year itch may not be a case of familiarity breeding ennui and contempt, but the shock of having someone you thought you knew all too well suddenly seem a stranger. When that happens, you are compelled to either recommit to the relationship or get the hell out. There are many such times in a marriage.

Music gives me a lot of peace, either classic music with its structure or the spontaneity of Miles Davis. It brings the best in you.

Most dystopian, classic and contemporary, paints a future world that puts a twist on present society - a future world that could plausibly happen.

Mack Bolan is a classic American hero. Readers like him and I feel very good about that.

My main influences have always been the classic jazz players who sang, like Louis Armstrong and Nat King Cole and Jack Teagarden.

My favorite composers are the ones that tell the story. I love Wagner. I love Mahler. Prokofiev. The programmatic music. I listen more to classic rock because I don't like the contemporary music very much.

My favorite movie is Dumb and Dumber. It's a classic and I can pretty much recite the entire movie.

My grandma Ricky - that's where I got classic look from. She was the most stylish person ever. She had her own clothing store and even her furniture was stylish. I got my "Flashy, but classy" motto from her, too. Whenever she walked in the room, she was always the most stylish person in the room.

My story follows a very classic tragic paradigm in which you learn things too late for them to be of any use, and by keeping silent about the thing that you're terrified of, you bring it about - and even worse.

Obviously classical music tends to be stuff that is usually at least a hundred years old.

Novice Traders trade 5 to 10 times too big. They are taking 5 to 10% risks on a trade they should be taking 1 to 2 percent risks.

New York lost a classic. Carmine was an old school New Yorker.

Oh no, I might catch some ghastly disease.

Of comic novels that have quaffed the elixir of 'classic': Zuleika Dobson by Max Beerbohm.

Oh, it's you that owns that ghastly car, is it?

Oh! You're the people ruining the rivers.

Parineeta is a classic love story.

Our industry [classic music] has kind of retarded into this kind of endless cover-producing thing, and it's a pity.

One of the virtues of the NHS... it doesn't worry you about money at the moment when you're least capable of doing anything about it.